RIPLEY, Miss. (Court TV) — Carolyn Aguayo, the estranged daughter of accused murderer Jeffrey Spence , took the witness stand to describe years of escalating family conflicts that culminated in her cutting ties with her parents and moving across the country to escape what she called a “criminal family.”

Carolyn Aguayo testified against her father, Jeffrey Spence, on Sept. 26, 2025. (Court TV)

Aguayo testified that her father made disturbing comments while watching crime shows and threatened her husband during a bitter family dispute in 2014.

Spence is charged with capital murder, larceny and conspiracy in the death of his other daughter’s boyfriend, Kirby Carpenter, in November 2022. Prosecutors allege he plotted with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Caitlin, to rob and kill Carpenter

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